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Academic Positions Assistant Professor, 2016–present Canada Research Chair in Geometry Processing Department of Computer Science University of Toronto Assistant Professor, 2018–present Department of Mathematics University of Toronto Postdoctoral Fellow, 2014–2016 Department of Computer Science Columbia University Mentor: Eitan Grinspun Postdoctoral Fellow, 2013–2014 Department of Computer Science Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH Zurich) Mentor: Olga Sorkine-Hornung Education PhD in Computer Science, 2013 ETH Zurich ETH Medal Thesis: Algorithms and Interfaces for Real-Time Deformation of 2D and 3D Shapes Advisor: Olga Sorkine-Hornung MA in Computer Science, 2011 Courant Institute, New York University Advisors: Olga Sorkine-Hornung, Denis Zorin BA with joint major in Mathematics and Computer Science, 2009 Courant Institute, New York University Departmental high honors, magna cum laude Advisor: Denis Zorin ACM SIGGRAPH & Communications of the ACM Publications 1. Oded Stein, Alec Jacobson, Max Wardetzky, Eitan Grinspun. “A Smoothness Energy without Boundary Distortion for Curved Surfaces,” ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2020. 2. Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu, Alec Jacobson. “Cubic Stylization,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 2019. www.cs.toronto.edu/~jacobson 40 St George Street, Room 5266 Toronto, ON, M5S 2E4 Canada [email protected] +1 507 369 62 59 Alec Jacobson Curriculum Vitæ 1/23

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Academic Positions

Assistant Professor, 2016–presentCanada Research Chair in Geometry ProcessingDepartment of Computer ScienceUniversity of Toronto

Assistant Professor, 2018–presentDepartment of MathematicsUniversity of Toronto

Postdoctoral Fellow, 2014–2016Department of Computer ScienceColumbia UniversityMentor: Eitan Grinspun

Postdoctoral Fellow, 2013–2014Department of Computer ScienceEidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH Zurich)Mentor: Olga Sorkine-Hornung

Education

PhD in Computer Science, 2013ETH ZurichETH MedalThesis: Algorithms and Interfaces for Real-Time Deformation of 2D and 3D ShapesAdvisor: Olga Sorkine-Hornung

MA in Computer Science, 2011Courant Institute, New York UniversityAdvisors: Olga Sorkine-Hornung, Denis Zorin

BA with joint major in Mathematics and Computer Science, 2009Courant Institute, New York UniversityDepartmental high honors, magna cum laudeAdvisor: Denis Zorin

ACM SIGGRAPH & Communications of the ACM Publications

1. Oded Stein, Alec Jacobson, Max Wardetzky, Eitan Grinspun. “A Smoothness Energy without BoundaryDistortion for Curved Surfaces,” ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2020.

2. Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu, Alec Jacobson. “Cubic Stylization,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPHAsia), 2019.

www.cs.toronto.edu/~jacobson40 St George Street, Room 5266

Toronto, ON, M5S 2E4 [email protected]

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3. Dario Seyb, Alec Jacobson, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Wojciech Jarosz. “Non-linear sphere tracing forrendering deformed signed distance fields,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 2019.

4. Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu, Alec Jacobson, Maks Ovsjanikov. “Spectral Coarsening for Geometric Operators,” ACMTransactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 2019.

5. Yixin Hu, Teseo Schneider, Xifeng Gao, Qingnan Zhou, Alec Jacobson, Denis Zorin, Daniele Panozzo.“TriWild: Robust Triangulation with Curve Constraints.” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH),2019.

6. Rinat Abdrashitov, Alec Jacobson, Karan Singh. “A System for Efficient 3D Printed Stop-Motion FaceAnimation,” ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2019.

7. Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu, Michael Tao, Alec Jacobson. “Paparazzi: Surface Editing by way of Multi-View ImageProcessing,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 2018.

8. Gavin Barill, Neil G. Dickson, Ryan Schmidt, David I.W. Levin, Alec Jacobson. “Fast Winding Numbers forSoups and Clouds,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 2018.

9. Yixin Hu, Qingnan Zhou, Xifeng Gao, Alec Jacobson, Denis Zorin, Daniele Panozzo. “Tetrahedral Meshing inthe Wild,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 2018.

10. Oded Stein, Eitan Grinspun, Max Wardetzky, Alec Jacobson. “Natural Boundary Conditions for Smoothing inGeometry Processing,” ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2018.

11. Songrun Liu, Zachary Ferguson, Alec Jacobson, Yotam Gingold. “Seamless: Seam erasure and seam-awaredecoupling of shape from mesh resolution,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 2017.

12. Qingnan Zhou, Eitan Grinspun, Denis Zorin, Alec Jacobson. “Mesh Arrangements for Solid Geometry,” ACMTransactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 2016.

13. Akash Garg, Alec Jacobson, Eitan Grinspun. “Computational Design of Reconfigurables,” ACM Transactionson Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 2016.

14. Oliver Glauser, Wan-Chun Ma, Daniele Panozzo, Alec Jacobson, Otmar Hilliges, Olga Sorkine-Hornung. “RigAnimation with a Tangible and Modular Input Device,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH),2016.

15. Leonardo Sacht, Etienne Vouga, Alec Jacobson. “Nested Cages,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc.SIGGRAPH Asia), 2015.

16. Yu Wang, Alec Jacobson, Jernej Barbič, Ladislav Kavan. “Linear Subspace Design for Real-Time ShapeDeformation,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 2015.

17. Songrun Liu, Alec Jacobson, Yotam Gingold. “Skinning Cubic Bézier Splines and Catmull-Clark SubdivisionSurfaces,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 2014.

18. Daniel Sýkora, Ladislav Kavan, Martin Čadík, Ondřej Jamriška, Alec Jacobson, Brian Whited, MaryannSimmons, Olga Sorkine-Hornung. “Ink-and-Ray: Bas-Relief Meshes for Adding Global Illumination Effects toHand-Drawn Characters,” ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2014.

19. Alec Jacobson, Daniele Panozzo, Oliver Glauser, Cédric Pradalier, Otmar Hilliges, Olga Sorkine-Hornung.“Tangible and Modular Input Device for Character Articulation,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc.SIGGRAPH), 2014.

20. Alec Jacobson, Ilya Baran, Jovan Popović, Olga Sorkine. “Bounded Biharmonic Weights for Real-Time ShapeDeformation,” Communications of the ACM: Research Highlights, 2014.Preface by Joe Waren, 中国版 translated by Kun Zhou

21. Alec Jacobson, Ladislav Kavan, Olga Sorkine-Hornung. “Robust Inside-Outside Segmentation usingGeneralized Winding Numbers,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 2013.

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22. Kaan Yücer, Alec Jacobson, Alexander Hornung, Olga Sorkine. “Transfusive Image Manipulation,” ACMTransactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 2012.Patent: US9202431

23. Alec Jacobson, Ilya Baran, Ladislav Kavan, Jovan Popović, Olga Sorkine. “Fast Automatic SkinningTransformations,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 2012.

24. Alec Jacobson, Olga Sorkine. “Stretchable and Twistable Bones for Skeletal Shape Deformation,” ACMTransactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH Asia), 2011.

25. Alec Jacobson, Ilya Baran, Jovan Popović, Olga Sorkine. “Bounded Biharmonic Weights for Real-Time ShapeDeformation,” ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proc. SIGGRAPH), 2011.

Additional Journal and Conference Proceedings Publications

26. Thibault Lescoat, Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu, Jean-Marc Thiery, Alec Jacobson, Tamy Boubekeur, Maks Ovsjanikov.“Spectral Mesh Simplification,” Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics), 2020.

27. Wenzheng Chen, Jun Gao, Huan Ling, Edward J. Smith, Jaakko Lehtinen, Alec Jacobson, Sanja Fidler.“Learning to Predict 3D Objects with an Interpolation-based Differentiable Renderer,” Neural InformationProcessing Systems, 2019.

28. Alec Jacobson. “RodSteward: A Design-to-Assembly System for Fabrication using 3D-Printed Joints andPrecision-Cut Rods,” Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Pacific Graphics), 2019.

29. Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu, Michael Tao, Chun-Liang Li, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Alec Jacobson. “Beyond PixelNorm-Balls: Parametric Adversaries using an Analytically Differentiable Renderer”, International Conference onLearning Representations, 2019.

30. Lawson Fulton, Vismay Modi, David Duvenaud, David I.W. Levin, Alec Jacobson. “Latent-space Dynamicsfor Reduced Deformable Simulation”, Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Eurographics), 2019.

31. Silvia Sellán, Herng Yi Cheng, Yuming Ma, Mitchell Dembowski, Alec Jacobson. “Solving PDEs onDeconstructed Domains,” Computer Graphics Forum, 2019.(presented at SGP 2019)

32. Oded Stein, Alec Jacobson, Eitan Grinspun. “Interactive Design of Castable Shapes using Two-Piece RigidMolds,” Computers & Graphics, 2019.

33. Rahul Arora, Alec Jacobson, Timothy Richard Langlois, Karan Singh, David I.W. Levin. “Volumetric MichellTrusses for Parametric Design & Fabrication,” Symposium on Computational Fabrication, 2019.

34. Timothy Jeruzalski, John Kanji, Alec Jacobson, David I.W. Levin. “Error Bounded Online Compression of RigidBody Simulations,” Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. SCA), 2018.

35. Marek Dvoroznak, Saman Sepehri Nejad, Alec Jacobson, Ondrej Jamriska, Ladislav Kavan, Daniel Sykora.“Seamless Reconstruction of Part-Based High-Relief Models from Hand-Drawn Images,” Expressive, 2018.

36. Alec Jacobson. “Generalized Matryoshka: Computational Design of Nesting Objects,” Computer GraphicsForum (Proc. SGP), 2017.

37. Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu, Alec Jacobson, Keenan Crane. “A Dirac Operator for Extrinsic Shape Analysis,”Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. SGP), 2017.

38. Jean-Charles Bazin, Claudia Plüss, Guo Yu, Tobias Martin, Alec Jacobson, Markus Gross. “Physically BasedVideo Editing,” Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. Pacific Graphics), 2016.

39. Alec Jacobson. “Breathing Life into Shapes,” Computer Graphics & Applications: Dissertation Impact, 2015.Invited by James D. Foley

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40. Romain Prévost, Alec Jacobson, Wojciech Jarosz, Olga Sorkine-Hornung. “Large-Scale Spray Painting ofPhotographs by Interactive Optimization,” Computers & Graphics, 2015

41. David Günther, Alec Jacobson, Jan Reininghaus, Hans-Peter Seidel, Olga Sorkine-Hornung, Tino Weinkauf.“Fast and Memory-Efficient Topological Denoising of 2D and 3D Scalar Fields,” IEEE Transactions onVisualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. SciVis), 2014.

42. Kenshi Takayama, Alec Jacobson, Ladislav Kavan, Olga Sorkine-Hornung. “A Simple Method for CorrectingFacet Orientations in Polygon Meshes Based on Ray Casting,” Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques,2014.

43. Alec Jacobson. “Bijective Mappings with Generalized Barycentric Coordinates: a Counterexample,” Journalof Graphics Tools, 2013.

44. Leonardo Sacht, Alec Jacobson, Daniele Panozzo, Christian Schüller, Olga Sorkine-Hornung. “ConsistentVolumetric Discretizations Inside Self-Intersecting Surfaces,” Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. SGP), 2013.

45. Alec Jacobson, Tino Weinkauf, Olga Sorkine. “Smooth Shape-Aware Functions with Controlled Extrema,”Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. SGP), 2012.

46. Alec Jacobson, Elif Tosun, Olga Sorkine, Denis Zorin. “Mixed Finite Elements for Variational SurfaceModeling,” Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. SGP), 2010.

Juried Demos, Workshop Courses, Posters, & Technical Reports

47. Wenzheng Chen, Jun Gao, Huan Ling, Edward J. Smith, Jaakko Lehtinen, Alec Jacobson, Sanja Fidler.“Learning to Predict 3D Objects with an Interpolation-based Differentiable Renderer,” arXiv, 2019.

48. Alec Jacobson. “RodSteward: A Design-to-Assembly System for Fabrication using 3D-Printed Joints andPrecision-Cut Rods,” ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication Posters & Short Talks, 2019.

49. Alec Jacobson. “RodSteward: A Design-to-Assembly System for Fabrication using 3D-Printed Joints andPrecision-Cut Rods,” arXiv, 2019.

50. Oded Stein, Alec Jacobson, Max Wardetzky, Eitan Grinspun. “A mixed finite element method with piecewiselinear elements for the biharmonic equation on surfaces,” arXiv, 2019.

51. Oded Stein, Alec Jacobson, Max Wardetzky, Eitan Grinspun. “A Smoothness Energy without BoundaryDistortion for Curved Surfaces,” arXiv, 2019.

52. Rahul Arora, Alec Jacobson, Timothy R. Langlois, Yijiang Huang, Caitlin Mueller, Wojciech Matusik, ArielShamir, Karan Singh, David I.W. Levin. “Designing Volumetric Truss Structures for Computational Fabrication,”arXiv, 2018.

53. Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu, Michael Tao, Chun-Liang Li, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Alec Jacobson. “AdversarialGeometry and Lighting using a Differentiable Renderer,” Technical Report, 2018.

54. Silvia Sellán, Herng Yi Cheng, Yuming Ma, Mitchell Dembowski, Alec Jacobson. “Solving PDEs onDeconstructed Domains,” Technical Report, 2018.

55. Silvia Sellán, Herng Yi Cheng, Yuming Ma, Mitchell Dembowski, Alec Jacobson. “Solving PDEs onDeconstructed Domains,” Symposium on Geometry Processing Posters, 2018.

56. Alec Jacobson. “libigl: Prototyping Geometry Processing Research in C++,” Graphics Interface Courses,2018.

57. Lawson Fulton, Vismay Modi, David Duvenaud, David I.W. Levin, Alec Jacobson. “Autodef: Non-linearSubspace Simulation for Large Deformation Elastodynamics,” Graphics Interface Posters, 2018.Best Poster Award.

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58. Michelle Arkhangorodsky, Yanjun Jiang, Alec Jacobson. “Simplification for Large-Scale Fabrication,”Graphics Interface Posters, 2018.

59. Andrew Nelles, Alec Jacobson. “Best-Fit Affine Progressive Meshes,” Graphics Interface Posters, 2018.60. Sarah Kushner, Alec Jacobson. “Example-Based Print Preview for Laser Cutting,” Graphics Interface Posters,

2018.61. Silvia Sellán, Alec Jacobson. “Solving PDEs on Overlapping Domains,” Graphics Interface Posters, 2018.62. Gavin Barill, Neil G. Dickson, Ryan Schmidt, David I.W. Levin, Alec Jacobson. “Fast Winding Numbers for

Soups and Clouds,” Graphics Interface Posters, 2018.63. Rahul Arora, Alec Jacobson, Timothy Richard Langlois, Karan Singh, David I.W. Levin. “Designing Volumetric

Truss Structures for Computational Fabrication,” Graphics Interface Posters, 2018.64. Timothy Jeruzalski, John Kanji, Alec Jacobson, David I.W. Levin. “Error Bounded Online Compression of Rigid

Body Simulations,” Graphics Interface Posters, 2018.65. Rinat Abdrashitov, Alec Jacobson, Karan Singh. “f-Stop: A System for 3D Printed Stop-Motion Facial

Animation,” Graphics Interface Posters, 2018.66. Darren Moore, Alec Jacobson, David I.W. Levin. “Rigless Skinning for Interactive Vector Animation,” Graphics

Interface Posters, 2018.67. Alec Jacobson. “Human-Math Interaction,” Computational Interactivity, Report from Dagstuhl Seminar

17232, 2017.68. Timothy Jeruzalski, Eugene Fiume, Alec Jacobson, David I.W. Levin. “Online Compression of Rigid Body

Simulations using Physics-Inspired Interpolation,” ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer AnimationPosters, 2017.Best Poster Award.

69. Alec Jacobson, Daniele Panozzo. “libigl: Prototyping Geometry Processing Research in C++,” ACMSIGGRAPH Asia Courses, 2017.

70. Alec Jacobson, Daniele Panozzo. “libigl: Prototyping Geometry Processing Research in C++,” Eurographics/ACM Symposium on Geometry Processing Courses, 2017.

71. Oliver Glauser, Benedek Vartok, Wan-Chun Ma, Daniele Panozzo, Alec Jacobson, Otmar Hilliges, OlgaSorkine-Hornung. “Rig Animation with a Tangible and Modular Input Device,” ACM User Interface Softwareand Technology Symposium Demos, 2016.

72. Qingnan Zhou, Alec Jacobson. “Thingi10K: A Dataset of 10000 3D-Printing Models”, arXiv:1605.04797,2016SGP 2017 Dataset Award

73. Akash Garg, Alec Jacobson, Eitan Grinspun. “Computational Design of Reconfigurables,” Tristate Workshopon Imaging and Graphics Posters, 2016.

74. Qingnan Zhou, Alec Jacobson. “Mesh Arrangements for Solid Geometry,” Tristate Workshop on Imaging andGraphics Posters, 2016.

75. Akash Garg, Alec Jacobson, Eitan Grinspun. “Computational Design of Reconfigurables,” Symposium onComputational Fabrication Posters, 2016.

76. Qingnan Zhou, Alec Jacobson. “Mesh Arrangements for Solid Geometry,” Symposium on ComputationalFabrication Posters, 2016.

77. Alec Jacobson. “Boolean Operations using Generalized Winding Numbers,” Columbia University, 2016.

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78. Alec Jacobson, Leonardo Sacht, Etienne Vouga. “Nested Cages,” Oberwolfach Report: Discrete DifferentialGeometry, 2015.

79. Alec Jacobson. “Skinning: Real-time Shape Deformation,” Eurographics/ACM Symposium on GeometryProcessing Invited Courses, 2015.

80. Leonardo Sacht, Etienne Vouga, Alec Jacobson. “Nested Cages,” Tristate Workshop on Imaging andGraphics Posters, 2015.

81. Yu Wang, Alec Jacobson, Jernej Barbič, Ladislav Kavan. “Linear Subspace Design for Real-Time ShapeDeformation,” Tristate Workshop on Imaging and Graphics Posters, 2015.

82. Alec Jacobson, Yotam Gingold. “Skinning: Real-time Shape Deformation,” ACM SIGGRAPH Asia InvitedCourses, 2014.

83. Alec Jacobson, Zhigang Deng, Ladislav Kavan, J.P. Lewis. “Skinning: Real-time Shape Deformation,” ACMSIGGRAPH Courses, 2014.

84. Daniele Panozzo, Alec Jacobson. “libigl: A C++ Library for Geometry Processing without a Mesh DataStructure,” Eurographics/ACM Symposium on Geometry Processing Courses, 2014.

85. Alec Jacobson, Daniele Panozzo, Oliver Glauser, Cédric Pradalier, Otmar Hilliges, Olga Sorkine-Hornung.“Tangible and Modular Input Device for Character Articulation,” ACM User Interface Software and TechnologySymposium Demos, 2014.

86. Alec Jacobson, Daniele Panozzo, Oliver Glauser, Cédric Pradalier, Otmar Hilliges, Olga Sorkine-Hornung.“Tangible and Modular Input Device for Character Articulation,” ACM SIGGRAPH Emerging Technologies,2014.

87. Kenshi Takayama, Alec Jacobson, Ladislav Kavan, and Olga Sorkine-Hornung. “Consistently OrientingFacets in Polygon Meshes by Minimizing the Dirichlet Energy of Generalized Winding Numbers,” ETH Zurich,2014.

88. Alec Jacobson. “Schur Complement Trick for Positive Semi-definite Energies,” Columbia University, 2014.89. Alec Jacobson. “Bijective Mappings with Generalized Barycentric Coordinates: A Counterexample,” ETH

Zurich, 2012.90. Alec Jacobson, Olga Sorkine. “A Cotangent Laplacian for Images as Surfaces,” ETH Zurich, 2012.91. Murphy Stein, Alec Jacobson, Yongming Hong. “Games for Learning Institute at NYU: Super

Transformation,” Games for Change Festival Demos, 2010.

Open-source Projects

libigl: A Simple C++ Geometry Processing LibraryAlec Jacobson, Daniele Panozzo, and others

2013–present

gptoolbox: Geometry Processing Toolbox for MATLABAlec Jacobson and others

2013–present

thingi10K: Ten Thousand 3D Models for Testing Robustness of Geometric AlgorithmsQingnan Zhou and Alec Jacobson

2016–present

Awards and Honors

2019 Ontario Early Researcher Award

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2019 Eurographics Best Paper, Honourable mention2018 Back cover image on Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH2018 Computer Graphics Forum Cover Image2018 Graphics Interface Best Poster Award2017 Eurographics Significant Young Researcher Award2017 Canada Research Chair2017 Eurographics/ACM Symposium on Geometry Processing Dataset Award2017 Eurographics Junior Fellow2017 NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement2017 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation Best Poster Award2016 Connaught New Researcher2015 Eurographics/ACM Symposium on Geometry Processing Software Award2015 US Junior Oberwolfach Fellow2015 NYCASCENT Fellow2015 Back cover image on Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia2014 Eurographics Best PhD Thesis2014 Heidelberg Laureate Forum Young Researcher2013 ETH Medal for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation, top 8% university-wide2013 Intel PhD Fellowship2011 Back cover image on Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH2009 New York University Henry M. MacCracken Fellowship (3 years)2009 Grand Prize, Games For Learning Institute Game Design Challenge2009 New York University Founder’s Day Award

Employment

2019–present Adobe Research Visiting Professor, Consultant2016–present University of Toronto Assistant Professor2014–2016 Columbia University

Mentor: Eitan GrinspunPostdoctoral researcher & co-instructor

2013–2014 ETH ZurichMentor: Olga Sorkine-Hornung

Postdoctoral researcher & teaching assistant

2011–2013 ETH ZurichAdvisor: Olga Sorkine-Hornung

Graduate researcher & teaching assistant

2010 Adobe ResearchAdvisor: Jovan Popović

Summer research intern

2009–2011 New York UniversityAdvisors: Olga Sorkine-Hornung, Denis Zorin

Graduate researcher

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2008–2009 New York UniversityAdvisors: Denis Zorin, Yotam Gingold

Undergraduate researcher

2008 IBMAdvisor: Chuck Wallace

Summer programming intern

2007 Mayo ClinicAdvisor: Željko Bajzer

Summer research intern

Research Funding

2019–2020 SSHRC-CRSH New Frontiers in Research Fund 11.9% acceptance rate$250,000 CAD

2019 Autodesk gift2019 Ontario Early Researcher Award

$140,000 CAD2019 Facebook Oculus Hardware gift2019 Fields Institute

Workshop Funding$25,000 CAD

2018–2020 Fields Institute CQAM Lab$160,000 CAD

2018 Mitacs Globalink Research Award - Campus France$3,500 CAD

2018 Autodesk gift2018 MESH Inc. gift2018 Fields Institute

Workshop Funding$25,000 CAD

2018 NSERC USRAone summer undergraduate research fellow

2018 Fields Institute, FURSPthree summer undergraduate research fellows

2018 Engineering Science Research Opportunities Fundone summer undergraduate research fellow

2018 Fields Instituteone visiting faculty researcher$3,500 CAD

2017–2022 NSERC Discovery, RGPIN–2017–05235$155,000 CAD

2017–2020 NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement, RGPAS–2017–507938$120,000 CAD

2017–2022 Canada Research Chair$158,335 CAD

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2017–2018 Fields Instituteone visiting faculty researcher$10,500 CAD

2017 Fields Institute, FURSPfour summer undergraduate research fellows

2017 NSERC USRAone summer undergraduate research fellow

2016–present Adobe Systems gift2016–2017 Connaught New Researcher Award

$10,000 CAD2015 SGP Software Award

€1,000 EUR2014 US Junior Oberwolfach Fellow

€200 EUR2012 Intel Doctoral Student Honor Programme

$35,000 USD

Conference Talks

Pacific GraphicsRodSteward: A Design-to-Assembly System for Fabricationusing 3D-Printed Joints and Precision-Cut Rods

October, 17, 2019

Graphics Interface (invited talk)Interactive Design of Castable Shapes Using Two-Piece Rigid Molds

May 31, 2019

Graphics Interface (invited course)libigl: Prototyping Geometry Processing Research in C++

May 8, 2018

ACM SIGGRAPH Asialibigl: Prototyping Geometry Processing Research in C++

November 29, 2017

Eurographics/ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Geometry ProcessingGeneralized Matryoshka: Computational Design of Nesting Objects

July 3, 2017

Eurographics/ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Geometry Processing (invited course)libigl: Prototyping Geometry Processing Research in C++

July 1, 2017

ACM SIGGRAPHComputational Design of Reconfigurables

July 27, 2016

Eurographics/ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Geometry Processing (invited course)Skinning: Real-time Shape Deformation, “Direct Methods & Automatic Methods”

June 18, 2016

Graphics Interface (invited talk)Large-Scale Painting of Photographs by Interactive Optimization

June 3, 2016

Eurographics/ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Geometry Processing (invited course)Skinning: Real-time Shape Deformation, “Direct Methods & Automatic Methods”

July 5, 2015

ACM SIGGRAPH Asia (invited course)Skinning: Real-time Shape Deformation, “Automatic Methods”

December 3, 2014

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ACM SIGGRAPHSkinning: Real-time Shape Deformation, “Automatic Methods”

August 14, 2014

ACM SIGGRAPHTangible and Modular Input Device for Character Articulation

August 12, 2014

Eurographics/ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Geometry Processinglibigl: A C++ Library for Geometry Processing without a Mesh Data Structure

July 4, 2014

ACM SIGGRAPHRobust Inside-Outside Segmentation using Generalized Winding Numbers

July 22, 2013

ACM SIGGRAPHFast Automatic Skinning Transformations

August 8, 2012

Eurographics/ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Geometry ProcessingSmooth Shape-Aware Functions with Controlled Extrema

July 16, 2012

ACM SIGGRAPH AsiaStretchable and Twistable Bones for Skeletal Shape Deformation

December 14, 2011

ACM SIGGRAPHBounded Biharmonic Weights for Real-Time Deformation

August 10, 2011

Eurographics/ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Geometry ProcessingMixed Finite Elements for Variational Surface Modeling

July 6, 2010

Invited Talks

TEDx University of Toronto KeynoteGeometry Processing in the Wildinivited by Tracy Barber, Sumana Dhanani

February 13, 2020

New York UniversityCubic Stylizationinvited by Daniele Panozzo

January 31, 2020

Dagstuhl Seminar on Interactive Design and SimulationSpectral Coarsening of Geometric Operatorsinvited by Jörg Peters, Thomas Grandine, Ulrich Reif, Olga Sorkine-Hornung

December 17, 2019

AI For Engineering Summer SchoolGeometry Processing in the Wildinvited by Hesam Salehipour, Mike Haley

August 16, 2019

Beijing Film AcademyGeometry Processing in the Wildinvited by Baoquan Chen

July 28, 2019

Symposium on Art and A.I.Toward Three-Dimensional Cinematographyinvited by Pia Kleber, David Rokeby, Tamara Trojanowska

June 25, 2019

Shape Modeling International KeynoteGeometry Processing in the Wildinvited by Giuseppe Patanè, Raphaelle Chaine

June 21, 2019

CVPR Workshop on Deep Generative Models for 3D Understanding June 17, 2019

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Geometry Processing in the Wildinvited by Xavier SnelgroveGraphics InterfaceGeometry Processing in the Wildinvited by Robert J. Teather, Andrea Tagliasacchi

May 20, 2019

Fields Institute Workshop on Robust Geometric Algorithms for Computational Fabrication IISolid Geometry Processing on Deconstructed Domainsinvited by Daniel Hambleton

May 3, 2019

University of VictoriaGeometry Processing in the Wildinvited by Andrea Tagliasacchi

April 18, 2019

University of British ColumbiaGeometry Processing in the Wildinvited by Michiel van de Panne

April 17, 2019

National Research Council Canada, Computer Science Colloquium SeriesGeometry Processing in the Wildinvited by Pengcheng Xi

April 16, 2019

Concordia UniversityGeometry Processing in the Wildinvited by Tiberiu Popa

March 12, 2019

Bellairs Workshop on Computer AnimationMoving Geometry by Looking at Itinvited by Paul Kry

February 16, 2019

Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute SeminarGeometry Processing in the Wildinvited by Keenan Crane

February 8, 2019

CG Connect TorontoRobust Geometry Processing: the Life Cycle of a Messy Shapeinvited by Martin de Lasa, Laurence Cymet, and Nikola Milosevic

November 27, 2018

Dagstuhl Seminar on Computational Aspects of FabricationRobust Geometry Processing: the Life Cycle of a Messy Shapeinvited by Bernd Bickel, Marc Alexa, Kristina Shea, Jessica Hodgins

October 26, 2018

Fields Institute Workshop on Robust Geometric Algorithms for Computational FabricationFast Winding Numbers for Soups and Cloudsinvited by Alla Sheffer, Olga Sorkine-Hornung

May 1, 2018

George Mason UniversityFast Winding Numbers for Soups and Cloudsinvited by Yotam Gingold

April 26, 2018

Bellairs Workshop on Computer AnimationFrom Reconfigurables to Matryoshka, Optimizing Shapes and Motions over Space-Timeinvited by Paul Kry

February 10, 2018

BIRS Workshop on Geometry & Computation for Interactive SimulationFrom Reconfigurables to Matryoshka, Optimizing Shapes and Motions over Space-Timeinvited by Jorg Peters, Ulrich Reif, and Dinesh Pai

September 25, 2017

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Dagstuhl Seminar on Computational InteractivityHuman Math Interactioninvited by Xiaojun Bi, Otmar Hilliges, Takeo Igarashi, and Antti Oulasvirta

June 6, 2017

Graphics InterfaceBreaking Barriers between Humans and Geometryinvited by Elmar Eisemann

May 19, 2017

University of WaterlooRobust Geometry Processing for Irregularly Bounded Domainsinvited by Christopher Batty

April 18, 2017

Bellairs Workshop on Computer AnimationRobust Geometry Processing for Irregularly Bounded Domainsinvited by Paul Kry

February 4, 2017

Toronto User ExperienceBreaking Barriers between Humans and Geometryinvited by Daniel Wigdor

October 25, 2016

Cornell UniversityBreaking Barriers between Humans and Geometryinvited by Steve Marschner

March 22, 2016

Adobe ResearchBreaking Barriers between Humans and Geometryinvited by David Salesin

March 14, 2016

Purdue UniversityBreaking Barriers between Humans and Geometryinvited by Voicu Popescu

March 10, 2016

University of TorontoBreaking Barriers between Humans and Geometryinvited by Karan Singh

March 7, 2016

University of Southern CaliforniaBreaking Barriers between Humans and Geometryinvited by Jernej Barbič

February 18, 2016

UC RiversideBreaking Barriers between Humans and Geometryinvited by K. K. Ramakrishnan

February 10, 2016

University of TokyoBreaking Barriers between Humans and Geometryinvited by Takeo Igarashi

October 30, 2015

Geometry Workshop in SeggauNested Cagesinvited by Alexander I. Bobenko, Helmut Pottmann, and Johannes Wallner

July 12, 2015

Oberwolfach Discrete Differential Geometry WorkshopNested Cagesinvited by Alexander I. Bobenko, Richard Kenyon and Peter Schröder

March 5, 2015

City University of Hong KongFrom Model to Motioninvited by Hongbo Fu

December 9, 2014

Alec Jacobson Curriculum Vitæ

12/23

Visual Effects Society, LondonTangible and Modular Input Device for Character Articulationinvited by Ean Carr

September 17, 2014

Double Negative, LondonTangible and Modular Input Device for Character Articulationinvited by Ean Carr

September 17, 2014

Polytechnic Institute of New York UniversityTangible and Modular Input Device for Character Articulationinvited by Andy Nealen

August 1, 2014

George Mason UniversityRobust Inside-Outside Segmentation using Generalized Winding Numbersinvited by Yotam Gingold

July 19, 2013

New York UniversityRobust Inside-Outside Segmentation using Generalized Winding Numbersinvited by Qingnan Zhou

June 25, 2013

CVGC Seminar Series, Columbia UniversityAlgorithms and Interfaces for Real-Time Deformation of 2D and 3D Shapesinvited by Eitan Grinspun

June 18, 2013

Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, SaarbrückenAchieving High-quality Shape Deformation in Real Timeinvited by Tino Weinkauf

February 26, 2013

Workshop on Computer Graphics and Emerging Technology,Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced TechnologyAchieving High-quality Shape Deformation in Real Timeinvited by Baoquan Chen

November 26, 2012

New York UniversityFast Automatic Skinning Transformationsinvited by Denis Zorin

July 31, 2012

NSF Workshop on Barycentric Coordinatesin Geometry Processing and Finite/Boundary Element MethodsHigh-quality Weight Functions via Constrained Optimizationinvited by Kai Hormann

July 25, 2012

Freie UniversitätHigh-quality Weight Functions via Constrained Optimizationinvited by Konrad Polthier

June 22, 2012

SIGGRAPH Tokyo (teleconference)Stretchable, Twistable Bones for Skeletal Shape Deformationinvited by Jun Saito

February 24, 2012

LiberoVision, ZurichReal-time Shape Deformation:Bounded Biharmonic Weights and Stretchable, Twistable Bonesinvited by Remo Ziegler

February 2, 2012

DISI University of GenoaReal-time Deformation: Bounded Biharmonic Weights and Stretchable, Twistable Bonesinvited by Enrico Puppo

June 27, 2011

Alec Jacobson Curriculum Vitæ

13/23

ETH Zurich-Disney Research Zurich Tech TalkMixed Finite Elements for Variational Surface Modelinginvited by Alexander Hornung

October 20, 2010

Panels

Mitacs Panel Discussion Sessioninvited by Monica Caverson

November 13, 2019

Beijing Film Academyinvited by Baoquan Chen

July 28, 2019

Fields CQAM Launchinvitied by Huaxiong Huang

June 28, 2018

Teaching

2019 Seminar in Geometry and AnimationUniversity of Toronto

Instructor

2016–2019 Computer GraphicsUniversity of TorontoDesigned novel curriculum

Instructor

2017–2018 Geometry ProcessingUniversity of TorontoDesigned novel curriculum

Instructor

2015 Seminar in Geometry and AnimationColumbia UniversityDesigned novel curriculum

Co-instructor

2013 Advanced Topics in Visual ComputingETH Zurich

Co-instructor

2011–2013 Computer GraphicsETH Zurich

Assistant

2008–2009 America Counts Math InterventionClinton Public Middle School for Artists and Writers, New York

Student teacher

Advising

Seungbae BangPostdoc Fellow, University of Toronto

2019–present

Silvia SellánPhD candidate, University of Toronto

2019–present

Risa UlinskiPhD candidate, University of Toronto

2019–present

Josh HolinatyMSc candidate, University of Toronto

2019–present

Alec Jacobson Curriculum Vitæ

14/23

Thomas DaviesMSc candidate, University of Toronto

2019–present

Hsueh-Ti Derek LiuPhD candidate, University of Toronto

2017–present

Sarah KushnerPhD candidate, University of Toronto

2017–present

Oded SteinPhD candidate, Columbia University

2015–present

Etienne CormanPostdoc Fellow, University of Torontonext stop: faculty position, CNRS

2018–2019

Changjian Livisiting PhD candidate, University of Hong Kong

2018–2019

Aditya SanghiMScAC, University of Torontonext stop: Autodesk

2018

Gavin BarillMSc, University of Torontonext stop: PhD candidate McGill Unversity, Mathematics

2017–2019

Lawson FultonMSc, University of Torontonext stop: software engineer at MESH Inc.

2017–2019

Timothy JeruzalskiMSc, University of Torontonext stop: PhD candidate at University of Toronto

2016–2018

Leonardo Koller Sachtvisiting PhD student from IMPA, ETH Zurichnext stop: adjunct professor at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

2012–2014

Stefan MessmerMS, ETH Zurichnext stop: senior software engineer at MP Technology

2013–2014

Dingzeyu Livisiting BA student from HKUST, ETH Zurichnext stop: PhD candidate at Columbia University

2012–2013

Christian SchulzMS, ETH Zurichnext stop: PhD candidate at ETH Zurich

2012

David MeierMS, ETH Zurichnext stop: software engineer at LiberoVision

2012

Oliver GlauserMS, ETH Zurichnext stop: PhD candidate at ETH Zurich

2011–2012

Yang Song 2010–2011

Alec Jacobson Curriculum Vitæ

15/23

MA, New York Universitynext stop: PhD candidate at University of Utah

Undergraduates and summer students

Cindy ZhuUnionville High School, visiting

2019

Nanik AdnaniMonarch Park Collegiate Institute visiting

2019

Eris ZhangUniversity of Toronto

2019

Silvia SellánUniversity of Oviedo, visitingFields Undergraduate Summer Research Program

2018

Jacob KestenRice University, visitingFields Undergraduate Summer Research Program

2018

Ang Yan ShengNational University of Singapore, visitingFields Undergraduate Summer Research Program

2018

Arjun ChhabraUniversity of Toronto

2018

Lizhe ChenUniversity of Toronto

2018

Eduard Gonzalvo GelabertUniversitat Politècnica de Catalunya, visitingCentre de Formació Interdisciplinària Superior

2017–2018

Herng YiMassachusetts Institute of Technology, visitingFields Undergraduate Summer Research Program

2017

Silvia SellánUniversity of Oviedo, visitingFields Undergraduate Summer Research Program

2017

Mitchell DembowskiReyerson University, visitingFields Undergraduate Summer Research Program

2017

Christine MaUniversity of TorontoFields Undergraduate Summer Research Program

2017

Gavin BarillUniversity of Toronto

2017

Darren MooreUniversity of Toronto

2017

Alec Jacobson Curriculum Vitæ

16/23

Lawson FultonUniversity of Toronto

2017

Klint QinamiColumbia University

2016

Lucas SchuermannColumbia University

2015

Vaibhav VavilalaColumbia University

2015

Doctoral Committee

Baptiste AnglesUniversity of VictoriaGeometric Modeling with Primitives

April 18, 2019

Songrun LiuGeorge Mason UniversityOpenning Up New Possibilities Of Linear Blend Skinning

April 27, 2018

Akash GargColumbia UniversityInteractive, Computation Assisted Design Tools

February 13, 2017

Editorial Posts, Workshop Organizing, Program Chairing

General Chair, Symposium on Geometry Processing, 2021Program Chair, Pacific Graphics, 2020Program Chair, Symposium on Geometry Processing, 2020Program Chair, Graphics Interface, 2020Software & Dataset Awards Chair, Symposium on Geometry Processing, 2019–presentOrganizer, Fields Institute Workshop on Robust Geometric Algorithms for Computational Fabrication, 2019Graduate School Chair, Symposium on Geometry Processing, 2018Organizer, Fields Institute Workshop on Robust Geometric Algorithms for Computational Fabrication, 2018Associate Editor, Computers & Graphics, 2017–presentPosters Chair, Pacific Graphics, 2017

Conference Program Committees

ACM SIGGRAPH, 2017, 2018, 2020ACM SIGGRAPH Asia, 2019ACM SIGGRAPH Conflict of Interest Coordinator, 2019ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Doctoral Consortium Committee, 2018ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Courses, 2015ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Technical Briefs & Posters, 2016, 2017, 2018CAD/Graphics, 2015Eurographics, 2017, 2018Eurographics Short Papers, 2012, 2013, 2014

Alec Jacobson Curriculum Vitæ

17/23

Geometric Modeling and Processing, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017Graphics Interface, 2017International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2015, 2016, 2017Pacific Graphics, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019Shape Modeling International, 2016, 2018, 2019Shape Modeling International – Fabrication and Sculpting Event (FASE), 2019Symposium on Computer Animation, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018Symposium on Computational Fabrication, 2017Symposium on Geometry Processing, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019Symposium on Geometry Processing Reproducibility Stamp, 2016Replicability Stamp, 2017

Awards Committees

Pacific Graphics Awards, 2019Symposium on Geometry Processing Software Award, 2017, 2018, 2019Symposium on Geometry Processing Dataset Award, 2018

Conference Session Chairing

ACM SIGGRAPH, 2017, 2018, 2019ACM SIGGRAPH Asia, 2018, 2019ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Technical Briefs, 2017Eurographics, 2017Graphics Interface, 2017, 2018, 2019Pacific Graphics, 2019Symposium on Geometry Processing, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019TEDxUofTSalon, 2017Tristate Workshop on Imaging and Graphics, 2015

Funding Referee Service

Fields Undergraduate Research Summer Program, Committee 2019Israeli Science FoundationMitacs AccelerateNSERC DiscoverySNF Early PostDoc.Mobility Fellowship

Referee Service

ACM SIGGRAPHACM SIGGRAPH AsiaACM SIGGRAPH Asia CoursesACM SIGCHIACM Transactions and GraphicsACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and SystemsCAD/GraphicsCVPR Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Alec Jacobson Curriculum Vitæ

18/23

Computer Aided Geometric DesignComputer Graphics ForumComputers and GraphicsECCV European Conference on Computer VisionEngineering with ComputersEurographicsEurographics Short PapersGeometric Modeling and ProcessingGraphical ModelsGraphics InterfaceIEEE Computer Graphics and ApplicationsIEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer GraphicsIEEE Robotics & Automation LettersInternational Conference on 3D Vision (3DV)International Journal of Computer VisionInternational Journal for Numerical Methods in EngineeringJournal of Computer Graphics TechniquesJournal of Graphics ToolsMathematical GeosciencesPacific GraphicsSIAM Journal of Imaging SciencesSIBGRAPI Conference on Graphics, Patterns and ImagesShape Modeling InternationalSymposium on Computer AnimationSymposium on Computational FabricationSymposium on Geometry ProcessingTEI ACM Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied InteractionsUIST ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

Service

University of Toronto, Computer Graphics Club, Faculty Coordinator

Visitors I have hosted

Adrian ButscherAutodesk ResearchDemystifying Topology Optimization

December 12, 2019

Changxi ZhengColumbia UniversityComputational Design for Bridging Physical and Digital Worlds

December 3, 2019

Michal EdelsteinTechnionAutomatic Non-Isometric Shape Correspondence using a Genetic Algorithm

November 6, 2019

Seungbae BangKAISTBreathing life into digital characters

October 9, 2019

Alec Jacobson Curriculum Vitæ

19/23

Mirela Ben ChenTechnionChebyshev Nets from Commuting PolyVector Fields

September 18, 2019

Francis WilliamsNew York UniversityGeometric Priors of Feedfoward ReLU Networks

August 12, 2019

Thomas LumpeETH Zurich4D Printing in Engineering Design Research: Materials, Methods, and Applications

August 7, 2019

Dale HaywardSee Creatures FilmsBone Mother: The Challenges of Making an Indie 3D-Printed Film

July 22, 2019

Brady PetersUniversity of Toronto, Daniels Faculty of ArchitectureComputer-generated Architecture: The Smithsonian Courtyard

May 16, 2019

Eitan GrinspunColumbia UniversityA Geometric Perspective on Computing Motion

May 14, 2019

Yotam GingoldGeorge Mason UniversityColor, Geometry, and Time-Lapse Painting

May 6, 2019

Yu ZouUniversity of Toronto, Materials Science and EngineeringAdditive manufacturing and mechanical properties of metallic materials across length scales

April 4, 2019

Maria YabloninaUniversity of StuttgartTask-Specific Architecture Machines

April 1, 2019

Marc AlexaTU BerlinConforming Regular Triangulations

February 28, 2019

Andrea TagliasacchiGoogleCapture, Tracking, and Compression of 4D Geometry

January 31, 2019

Changjian LiThe University of Hong KongBendSketch: Modeling Freeform Surfaces Through 2D Sketching

September 13, 2018

Yixin HuNew York UniversityTetrahedral Meshing in the Wild

August, 9, 2018

Oded SteinColumbia UniversityNatural Boundary Conditions for Smoothing in Geometry Processing

April 6, 2018

Morgan McGuirenVidia Research, University of Waterloo, Williams CollegeRealistic 3D Graphics in Real Time

December 14, 2017

Alec Jacobson Curriculum Vitæ

20/23

Hanno ReinUniversity of Toronto, Physical and Environmental SciencesThe Numerical Challenges of Simulating Planetary Systems

December 7, 2017

Nobuyuki UmetaniAutodesk ResearchExploring Generative 3D Shapes Using Autoencoder Networks

November 16, 2017

Etienne CormanCarnegie Mellon UniversityFunctional Characterization of Deformation Fields

September 22, 2017

Dominik MichelsKAUSTOn the Integration of Stiff Nonlinear Problems

September 13, 2017

Oliver WeegerSingapore University of Technology and DesignIsogeometric collocation methods for nonlinear 3D rods

August 18, 2017

Marc AlexaTU BerlinEye Tracking in 3D

July 27, 2017

Erik PostmaMaplesoft Research & DevelopmentExamples of Computer Algebra with Maple

July 13, 2017

Nobuyuki UmetaniAutodesk ResearchNeuralCFD: Learning Three-dimensional Flow for Interactive Aerodynamic Design

June 15, 2017

David HahnIST AustriaSimulating with surfaces: Boundary elements for liquids and fractures

May 11, 2017

Derek LiuCarnegie Mellon UniversityA Spectrum of Spectra: From Instrinsic to Extrinsic Shape Analysis

April 28, 2017

Cory MogkAutodesk ResearchMore than AutoCAD and Maya: The Hidden Secrets of Autodesk

April 13, 2017

Liane MakaturaDartmouth UniversityEnvironment-Scale Fabrication: Replicating Outdoor Climbing Experiences

March 30, 2017

Emilio Vital BrazilIBM ResearchFacing the high-dimensions: Inverse projection with radial basis functions

March 9, 2017

Eftychios SifakisUniversity of Wisconsin, MadisonDigital humans, virtual surgery and fast fluids:Do they have more in common than their hunger for performance?

February 23, 2017

Daniel HambletonMESH Inc.

February 16, 2017

Alec Jacobson Curriculum Vitæ

21/23

IOGRAM: A New Development Platform for 3D SoftwareJoaquim JorgeInstituto Superior TécnicoMultimodal interfaces for Shape Exploration: Beyond 2D Sketching

January 26, 2017

Marius KintelShapefactoryOpenSCAD: A different approach to 3D Modeling

December 1, 2016

Ali MazalekRyerson UniversityMovement, Material, Mind: Tangible and Embodied Interactions for Discovery and Learning

November 24, 2016

Noah LockwoodIndustrial Light and MagicVFX and Computer Science: Raptors, Rathtars, and Augmented Reality

November 7, 2016

Nobuyuki UmetaniAutodesk ResearchPrintone: Interactive Resonance Simulation for Free-form Print-wind Instrument Design

November 3, 2016

Jovan PopovićAdobe ResearchCharacter Animator

October 26, 2016

David SteinmanUniversity of Toronto, Mechanical and Biomedical EngineeringTowards illustration-inspired visualization of cerebral aneurysm blood flow dynamics

October 6, 2016

David DuvenaudUniversity of Toronto, Machine LearningDifferentiating through physical simulations to optimize initial conditions

September 22, 2016

Christopher BattyUniversity of WaterlooSurface-Only Animation of Gases and Liquids

September 15, 2016

David PalmerPixar ResearchDiscrete measured foliations and applications

September 8, 2016

Oded SteinColumbia UniversityThe finite element method for higher-order PDEs on subdivision surfaces

September 1, 2016

Oliver GlauserETH ZurichRig Animation with a Tangible and Modular Input Device

April 21, 2016

Roi PoranneETH ZurichScalable Locally Injective Mappings

April 21, 2016

Qingnan ZhouNew York UniversityPushing the Limits of 3D Printing Technologies

March 24, 2016

Ken Perlin June 18, 2015

Alec Jacobson Curriculum Vitæ

22/23

New York UniversityChalktalkAndy NealenNYU PolyExploring Game Space

May 5, 2015

Noam AigermanWeizmann InstituteRepresentation of bijections between surface meshes using non-injective mappings to the plane

August 18, 2014

Maks OvsjanikovÉcole PolytechniqueGeometry Processing via Linear Operators

May 20, 2014

Alec Jacobson Curriculum Vitæ

23/23